Quote Originally Posted by Toronto Gooner View Post
Err, wasn't that exactly what happened? I seem to recall the reports about his contract started at the start of last season, which was the start of his 3rd season at Arsenal.
Think our policy changed after the Flamini debacle so that contracts were renegotiated based on time left to run rather than being any performance related thing. So the accusation that Wenger 'allowed' Nasri to run down his contract (we don't know who conducts contract negotiations btw but it's likely to be Gazidis) while convienient looks groundless. Since human rights laws probably preclude us forcing Nasri to sign anything, the only other recourse is sell him.

And you wouldn't do that with 2 years left on his contract, because that's when we opened negotiations. The very earliest we could have sold him was January.
Can you imagine how batshit people would have gone had we done that?

A. Exceedingly batshit.